Assessment & Resources

Assessment

• Formative assessment includes class participation, answering to direct questioning, completion of key term work, mark-ups of reading, and class notes.
• Summative assessment includes creation of Slide presentation (using www.slide.com) to complete work on this lesson and questions on the unit test once overall unit is complete.

Products and Performances

• class participation and answering of direct questions
• key terms chart
• marked up reading
• summary of reading
• embedded marked up document
• embedded images with captions
• variety of notebook entries

See Student Work page for examples of student work.

Skills

• vocabulary identification and analysis
• thoughtfully marking up a text
• reading comprehension
• summarizing
• note-taking, including identification of main ideas and important details
• historical interpretations and analysis
• creating a presentation to summarize

Extensions & Modifications

• As designed, the lesson incorporates a number of aspects to differentiate instruction: images, song, video, maps, and text
• Potential modifications could include using condensed (edited by the teacher) versions of the texts in order to give shorter readings to students whose education plans, reading speeds, and/or english language difficulties necessiate such.

Materials & Resources

• Computer for each student (though the lesson could be modified to use paper and pen)
• Electronic whiteboard, projector, and speaker system, all attached to teacher computer (an overhead projector, transparencies, and CD player could be used instead)
• Student development of and familiarity with online environments, including creation of a virtual notebook
• Dust Bowl vocabulary: Drought, Great Plains, Dust Bowl, Migrant, Okie
• 4 column vocabulary chart: term, definition, importance, image
• various websites listed below:

WEBSITES

• http://www.wikispaces.com/

*wikispaces.com is a site that can be used for students to create their own online notebook

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYb9xjAhHI&feature=related

*site for one minute video of images and voiceover discussing the dirt storms that created the dust bowl

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdustM.JPG

*Map of the Dust Bowl, with migrant path lines

• http://www.aisc.org/uploadedImages/Steel_Solutions_Center/Conceptual/My_Region/Files/041708-web.gif

*Map of U.S. geographic regions, including the Great Plains

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/dustbowl-introduction/

*WGBH American Experience Dust Bowl introduction

• http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography/biography2.htm

*Woody Guthrie bio excerpt

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH2DJvgNlMA

*Pastures of Plenty by Woody Guthrie (song and images)

• http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Pastures_Of_Plenty.htm

*Pastures of Plenty lyrics

• http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Dorothea_Lange.php

*Dorothea Lange biography

• http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

*Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl photos

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/

*WGBH American Experience timeline of the Dust Bowl and related events

• http://www.slide.com/

*Slide.com site for creating presentations

Additonal

• http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl

*Dust Bowl overview with other links and videos from History.com